Jane Austen
she was referred for the truth of every particular to Colonel Fitzwilliam himself--from
whom she had previously received the information of his near concern in all his cousin's
affairs, and whose character she had no reason to question. At one time she had almost
resolved on applying to him, but the idea was checked by the awkwardness of the
application, and at length wholly banished by the conviction that Mr. Darcy would never
have hazarded such a proposal, if he had not been well assured of his cousin's
corroboration.
She perfectly remembered everything that had passed in conversation between Wickham
and herself, in their first evening at Mr. Phillips's. Many of his expressions were still fresh
in her memory. She was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a
stranger, and wondered it had escaped her before. She saw the indelicacy of putting himself
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